I Build Cars For a Living. I Can’t Afford to Buy One. - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    at 0:05: “I totaled a car last week and I can’t afford to replace it”. I feel like there is a bit of undue entitlement in that statement. Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?

    I have no love for Toyota or any other mega corp, and I think the bigger issue in this article is the very first statement in the interview: “I spent three and a half years building cars and I can’t afford a home yet”. That is a big problem, but I wouldn’t attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.

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      10 months ago

      Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?

      Yes, as everything around being a worker is designed for having a car. Should people be punished by loss of income and healthcare for, we don’t know what it was, a lapse of attention, black ice in a corner, you name it?

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      10 months ago

      I wouldn’t attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.

      I would, maybe not exclusively but have you seen how much the investor class profit and hoard?

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        10 months ago

        I would

        But not exclusively.

        You can point the finger to individual and foreign investors, but also to government policies (or lack thereof) that make that possible.

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          10 months ago

          governments are on investors’ pockets too and i think this is the biggest problem